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Dear all,
I am an administrator for a domain.


I want to be able to get a script that will populate the login boxes (with credentials I know/set) to login to the actual PC. It enables us to run scripts en masse, something that we already have configured.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc939702.aspx -  adminlogon registry keys which prove to be inconsistent
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/autologon.aspx - is a glorified registry editor, and not command line based
https://www.logonexpert.com/ - works great, but expensive for the amount of clients we have

The market is really void of these types of solutions and it would be great if AutoIt has this capability.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts,
 

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4 hours ago, Bobby_Moore said:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/autologon.aspx - is a glorified registry editor, and not command line based

Not entirely accurate.
"You can also pass the username, domain and password as command-line arguments:autologon user domain password"

Also, the AutoLogon tool encrypts the password which is much safer than adding the registry keys for AutoAdminLogon as described in the MS article.

 

2 hours ago, Bert said:

Umm....you can run scripts as an admin without logging in. Its how packages are pushed to PCs without the users logged in.

Agreed.  There are many ways to push scripts without having to login...now if your script depends on a user being logged in, that's another thing but that's not a very good deployment approach and should be avoided if possible. 

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The autologin does work, but all it is doing is injecting the relevant registries. I can do that without the autologin tools to achieve the same goal en masse.

Problem is, we are trying to login around 200 PCs via this method and there are documented issues when it comes to this scale.

What would be more reliable is an AutoIt script to sequence the keys to login - would this be possible?

 

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On 12/16/2016 at 2:54 AM, Bobby_Moore said:

there are documented issues when it comes to this scale.

What documented issues? 

 

On 12/16/2016 at 2:54 AM, Bobby_Moore said:

I can do that without the autologin tools to achieve the same goal en masse

How do you encrypt the password?

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